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Embed a youtube video on your website: copyrights

by favconnection
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Hi,

Many websites, include facebook, allow to post youtube videos on their websites.

If you have a blog, and you add a few youtube videos (you are not the owner of these videos), is it a violation of the law?
#copyrights #embed #video #website #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author cifaruksa
    Like this situation, youtube banned the videos owner. And that link doesn't work anymore. And all responsibility is the person who posted the video on YouTube.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by favconnection View Post

    Hi,

    Many websites, include facebook, allow to post youtube videos on their websites.

    If you have a blog, and you add a few youtube videos (you are not the owner of these videos), is it a violation of the law?
    If you are using YouTube's embed code, you're covered. When someone uploads a video and allows embedding, they are giving a license to whoever chooses to embed that video through YouTube. Heck, you'll find a lot of embedded YT videos here.

    On the other hand, if you scrape the video and post it without a license, all bets are off.
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    As already mentioned, if the owner is allowing it to be embedded, then you are good.

    A while back I saw a pretty slick members site builder that used embedded youtube videos to create the content. The whole point behind it was to use the member sites as opt-in bribes and then market offers relative to the member site niche. I monetize purchase data, so it doesn't really fit in with my model. But I thought it was pretty cool and could see how it could work.
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  • Profile picture of the author ANDREIS
    You can embed any video you find on Youtube except those that have a clear statement in the description of the video saying otherwise. In fact any video that has embedding option is free to use but if the video has the embedding option but also has a statement saying otherwise it's better to avoid such videos because the owner can make unnecessary problems so why bother. Just stick to those videos that have nothing about licensing stated in the description of the video.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sven300
      In October 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union issues a judgment stating that embedding copyrighted videos is not copyright infringement... even if the source video was uploaded without permission.

      In 2012, Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (United States), stated it was not copyright infringement to use the embed code furnished by a video web service such as YouTube.

      So it is not illegal in the United States and in the European Union. But it could theoretically be illegal if the website is hosted in other countries such as Canada or Australia.

      It's unlikely, but it is theoretically possible.
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